Exhibitions

upcoming

“of both and worlds, in double time”
2 person show with Georgina Lewis
Piano Craft Gallery
Boston, MA
July 11-27, 2025

“Solidarity Dogs”
performance/installation/video
”an archive and/or a repertoire”
Mobius Artist
Collective
Tufts University Art Galleries
Boston, MA
January 29–April 20, 2025
Performance: Jan 31

“In the middle of it all”
3-channel video installation
collab with poet Elizabeth Young
and her chapbook release, “349 Things I Don’t Need to Worry About Right Now.”
Boston Art Review office, Boston Center for the Arts.
Boston, MA
(postponed to 2025)

past

  • “An Exercise in Exercise”
    video + installation
    Golden Colonel (group show)
    Flux Factory/Govenors Island
    New York, NY
    July 2024

    “349 Things I don’t need to worry about right now”
    video collab with poet Elizabeth Young
    Boston Art Review
    Issue 12 Launch Party
    Boston, MA
    May 2024

    “Cakescape #13”
    tablecloth
    Eat with Your Eyes (group show)
    Gallery 263
    Cambridge, MA
    May 2024

    “Not Yet Here”
    installation+cakescape performance
    ‘Fire in the Basement’(group show)
    Piano Craft Gallery
    Boston, MA   
    March 2024

  • “GUTS4GUTS”
    installation in an installation
    (part of veronique d’etremont’s The Table is an Altar)
    10B Projects
    Boston, MA   
    October 2023

    “Cake-scape #12”
    food installation
    Art School Confidential series
    Masary Studios
    Boston, MA   
    September 2023

    “TURF/TERF”
    video + installation
    (Digital Soup group show)
    Cambridge Art Gallery @Canal
    Cambridge, MA   
    June 2023

  • “The Mothers”
    video + installation
    From Micro to Macro
    (group show)
    Juried by Dr. Leonie Bradbury
    Emerson Media Art Gallery
    Boston, MA   
    December 2022

    “Now, or How I Wish It Was”
    80’ digital public art commission
    Video collaboration with Maria Servellon
    Boston Cyberarts
    Art on the Marquee,
    Mass Convention Center
    Boston, MA   
    July-October 2022

  • “The Mothers”
    video + installation
    Fountain Street Gallery
    Boston, MA
    November 2021

    “Area C”
    video
    Boston Art Review + Digital Soup launch event
    Boston, MA   
    October 2021

  • “On The Clock”
    video
    Fluffy Crime Gallery
    Chicago, IL   
    November 2020

    “On The Clock”
    video
    Boston CyberArts
    Boston, MA   
    October 2020

    “On The Clock”
    video
    Either I Woke Up, or Come Back to This Earth
    (3 person group show)
    VCFA
    Montpelier, VT
    March 2020

    “On The Clock”
    public performance art,
    gallery installation, video
    What Remains
    (performance art festival)
    Curated by ieke Trinks +
    Joseph Ravens of DFBRL8R
    ARC Gallery
    Chicago, IL
    Februrary 2020

    “Hot Dogs 24/7”
    video
    Digital Soup 3.0 (group show)
    Black Math
    Boston, MA
    January 2020

    “Refuge/Refugee”
    video
    Out of Place (group show)
    Juried by Jameson Johnson
    Fountain Street Gallery
    Boston, MA
    January 2020

  • “Hot Dogs 24/7”
    video screening
    Radical Imagination
    Antwerp, Belgium
    November 2019

    “State of Emergency”
    performance
    Nick Cave “Joy” (parade)
    Boston, MA
    September 2019

    “Hot Dogs 24/7”
    video
    Gender Riot (group show)
    curated by Sheila Pepe
    VCFA
    Montpelier, VT 
    September 2019

    “Pop-up Copy Shop”
    24 hour performance + installation
    Magenta Suite (solo show)
    Exeter, NH
    April 2019

    “Hot Dogs 24/7”
    video + installation
    ‘Avatars: Futures’
    (group show)
    Nave Gallery
    Somerville, MA
    April 2019

  • “Hot Dogs 24/7”
    video
    Free Form (group show)
    Gallery 263
    Cambridge, MA
    November 2018

    “Hot Dogs 24/7”
    MFA Thesis performance + video installation + exhibition
    VCFA
    Montpelier, VT 
    October 2018  

about

Marcel Marcel is an emerging video and installation artist based in Boston, born in Latvia.

Hovering between the absurd and abject, they remix microbial material, gifs, video, text and lo-fi sculptural props. Their work interrogates the fiction of borders and binaries in a speculative imagining of liberatory futures.

The plurality of registers in their work become a truth revealing means to tell a story and splay the production/reproduction of systemic oppression and legacy trauma.

Their studio practice seeks to articulate a theory of joy as embodied action. Marcel's work is recursive, moving between the micro to macro, the personal and political. Based in performance theory, their approach extends to the use of bio-art and food-art as material and metaphor part of an umbrella project called Post-Post-Post-Human Resources.

One mode is the use of kombucha SCOBYs (Symbiotic Culture Of Bacteria and Yeast) becomes a biomimetic metaphor for political coexistence and model for ecological balance.

The second mode is through the cake-scapes which combine experimental gastronomy, social practice and installation as a form of liberatory world-building and performance.As viewers eat the art, they become a part of the installation as performer, thus implicated in the story, dissolving the disembodied divide between watched and watcher. They perform the cake.

Similar to Marcel's other projects, the cakescapes become queered sites for political critique, radical imaginings and healing. 

Currently Marcel is a studio resident at the Boston Center for the Arts, a core member of the new media artist collective called Digital Soup and new member of Mobius Artists Group, a longtime performance art collective founded by Marilyn Arsem. In 2018, they received their MFA from VCFA. In July 2023, OyG Gallery in NYC named Marcel as an artist to watch for. In October 2024, they were honored to be named an Artadia finalist.

Marcel's name, Marcel Marcel, is a copy of a copy without an original.

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